At 9.50pm AEDT yesterday, there was a sudden spike in trading on the oil and S&P 500 futures market.
6.50am New York time is an unusual time for a rush on trades on West Texas Intermediate May futures.
But it showed that all of a sudden, a substantial sum of money was bet on oil prices dropping and the stock market rising.
My elderly father thinks “workers don’t know how to run businesses”, which is funny to me considering how many bone-headed decisions I’ve seen management make. Plus pointlessly cruel ones, alongside selfish and short-sighted ones.